This privacy policy sets out how The Kittchen uses and protects any information that you give while using www.thekittchen.com.
This policy may change from time to time. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from August 17, 2015.
Your information
You may choose to provide your contact information including, but not limited to, name, email address, and social media handles. If you choose to leave comments on this website, they will be publically visible.
Some information is automatically collected. This information is unidentifiable and includes IP address, referring website, pages viewed, browser type, links clicked, demographic information, preferences, and interests may be collected automatically.
We use this information to improve the website, facilitate giveaways, place ads, send newsletters, and post comments on the site. Anonymous data may be provided to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes – this includes analytics information and data collected by cookies.
At no time should you submit your sensitive personal information, including your social security number, race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, or criminal background.
This website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at thekittchen@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
How your information will be used
We use the information we collect to run this website, send newsletters, response to comments, and to track and measure advertising on the website.
Third party use of your information
This website uses third party service providers including Google Analytics, Disqus, and Mail Chimp. Except when required by law, we do not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Advertising
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
This website may engage in remarketing efforts with third party companies including Google, Facebook, or Instagram. This companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the website.
Affiliate programs
The website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by tracking links embeded in this website. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for commission purposes. The Kittchen is a participant in the RewardStyle affiliate program. As part of this program, this website will post customized links provided by RewardStyle to track referrals to their partner websites. The purpose of this is to track visits and to assign commissions to sales.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Contact information
You can email thekittchen@gmail.com with any questions about this policy.
last updated: June 2, 2020